DB-Equity Research-Asia-Pac ETF Market Weekly Review: ETP assets hold on around $100bn, but still under pressure-continued

March 26, 2012--Market ReviewAll the major Asia-Pacific markets were down last week. From north to south, Japan (Nikkei 225) fell by 1.17%, Korea (KOSPI2) declined by 0.12%, China (CSI 300) was down by 2.69%, Hong Kong (HSI) decreased by 3.04%, Singapore (FSSTI) slipped by 0.68%, and Australia (S&P/ASX 200) dropped by 0.13% over the previous week.

New Launch ReviewLast week, only one new product was launched in the Asia-Pacific ETP market. New entrant Canara Robeco listed one Gold ETF on National Stock Exchange (India) tracking domestic price of physical gold.

Turnover ReviewAsia-Pacific ETP turnover totaled $5.2bn for the last week, 14.5% down from the previous week’s total. South Korea continues to be on top of the turnover ranking with $1.6bn, followed by China ($1.4bn), Hong Kong ($1.3bn), Japan ($0.5bn), and Taiwan ($0.1bn). Among Equity ETFs, Emerging Country, Asia Pac Developed Country, Leveraged Strategy, and Short Strategy ETFs had total turnover of $2.6bn, $0.8bn, $0.7bn and $0.5bn respectively. Under the Commodity asset class, turnover in Gold ETPs totaled $113m for the last week.

Assets Under Management ReviewLast week, Asia-Pacific ETP AUM declined by $0.7bn and ended at $99.9bn. On a year to date basis, Asia-Pacific ETP market is up by $8.4bn or 9.2% above last year’s closing.

February 17, 2018--Fund managers' bumper bonuses are being scrutinised by the world's largest pension fund over fears investment professionals are being incentivised to generate short-term performance rather than long-term returns. .

February 15, 2018--Global index provider MSCI Inc on Thursday "strongly suggested" that India's three main stock exchanges reconsider their anti-competitive measures that restrict the accessibility of the Indian equity market to foreign exchanges.

February 14, 2018--NEW YEAR, NEW RECORD!
In what is typically a very quiet month for Australian markets, the ETF industry still managed to eke out a new record in terms of assets under management in the first month of 2018. Total industry FuM at the month end was $36.6B, a growth rate of 1.6% or monthly growth of ~$600m, with net new money accounting for ~75% of the growth, or $432m.

February 13, 2018--BetaShares and global asset manager Legg Mason have entered a strategic partnership to launch a range of high quality Active ETFs to broaden the investment options on offer to Australian investors.

February 13, 2018--ENHANCING THE MONETARY POLICY FRAMEWORK IN KOREA1
Inflation targeting from 1998 led to low and stable inflation, but since the global financial crisis Korea had faced more challenging conditions. As inflation expectations fell below the inflation target in 2012, the target was reduced by a percentage point to 2 percent in 2016.

Why Hong Kong investors are turning to the US to trade bitcoin futures

February 12, 2018--A growing number of Hong Kong investors are turning to the US market for trading bitcoin futures because they see it as safer than trading on Hong Kong's unregulated cryptocurrency exchanges, according to brokers.

February 8, 2018--- The renminbi weakened markedly on Thursday, pulling back from a two-year intraday high in the previous session and on track for its worst day in more than a year as the dollar strengthened.

February 7, 2018--Stocks: off to a strong start
Global equities posted further gains in January, with the MSCI All-Country Index returning 4.1% in local currency terms. By contrast, Australia's S&P/ASX 200 Index delivered a negative 0.4% return, and continued the general trend of underperformance that has been evident over the past year.

February 7, 2018--Central banks should consider using digital currencies in cross-border payments that could cut transaction time and costs, researchers at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), a top government think tank, said in a report.

February 6, 2018--HARNESSING INDONESIA'S DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES1
With a young and growing labor force, Indonesia is set to enjoy favorable demographic trends for
many years to come. This provides a window of opportunity to raise growth and support the country in
addressing its development challenges. However, reaping the demographic dividend before aging
starts to kick in, in less than 15 years, requires policies to raise productivity and create sufficient quality jobs to absorb the growing working-age population.1

February 6, 2018--Singapore Exchange (SGX) is pleased to collaborate with Bursa Malaysia (BM) on jointly developing our capital markets through a stock market trading link.
We welcome and support the announcement made by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) this morning on the establishment of a BM-SGX trading link.

February 2, 2018--Mutual fund investors can expect more Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) along the lines of Bharat 22 ETF, in the coming year. "The Government introduced Exchange Traded Fund Bharat-22 to raise Rs 14,500 crore, which was oversubscribed in all segments. DIPAM will come up with more ETF offers, including debt ETF," the finance minister said in his budget speech.

February 1, 2018--Forty years ago in December, Deng Xiaoping delivered his historic speech "Emancipate the mind, seeking truth from facts and unite as one to face the future." This triggered four decades of reforms that have transformed China into the world's second largest economy.

January 31, 2018--One of the surprise global market developments over the past year has undoubtedly been weakness in the $US. Why? This note suggests that, rather than simply blaming a dovish Fed or an erratic US President, the main driver of $US weakness has been the broadening (or "synchronisation") of global growth over the past year, which has encouraged investors to increase exposure to (at least up until recently) under performing non-US markets.

January 31, 2018--One word: BIG!
We'll begin our posts in 2018 with a look at the year 2017 in ETF-land. And what a year it was!
The Global ETF industry recorded significant growth in 2017, receiving its highest ever level of net inflows (US$633B)-a growth rate of 18% year on year. In total the global industry ended the year at US$4.8T1.

January 23, 2018--January 23, 2018--China's assets under management is expected to reach $12trn (€9.8trn) by 2027 due to pension fund inflows, according to a report from Shanghai-based financial consultancy Z-Ben.

ETFGI reports that assets invested in ETFs/ETPs listed in Asia Pacific ex-Japan increased by a record of 40 billion US dollars during the year of 2017

January 22, 2018--TFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, reported today that assets invested in ETFs and ETPs listed in Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) increased by 31.4% during 2017 to reach a new high of US$170.26 Bn at the end of December. (All dollar values in USD unless otherwise noted.)

ETFGI reports that assets invested in ETFs/ETPs listed in Japan increased by 59% to reach a new high of 275 billion US dollars at the end of December 2017

January 22, 2018--ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, reported today that assets invested in ETFs and ETPs listed in Japan increased by 59.2% during 2017 to reach a new high of US$275.84 Bn at the end of December. (All dollar values in USD unless otherwise noted.)